Sublime

I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonouring them.

Change when it arrived did so quickly and, for the most part, peacefully. Historical precedents would have predicted a violent transition. It was avoided in this instance, however, due to the leadership of two remarkable individuals. One, Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid activist, had been a political prisoner for twenty-seven years, eighteen of w

reconciling with the people who had marshaled the horrible forces of apartheid, and sharing power with them.

‘I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away.’

‘the oppressor defines the nature of the struggle.’

‘To make peace with an enemy one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes one’s partner.’